 Nakache in 1938 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 1915 Constantine, French Algeria | |||||||||||
| Died | 1983 (aged 67–68) Reunion Island | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
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Alfred Nakache (1915–1983) was a Jewish French swimmer and water polo player. A member of the French team for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games, he also swam in the first post-war Summer Olympics in London in 1948. He and Ben Helfgott are the only known Jewish athletes to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust.[1]
- ^ Steve Lipman (13 August 2004). "The Olympics and The Holocaust". Jewish Federations of North America. Archived from the original on 16 April 2013.